Describe the Bug
Activity bar in Cursor is significantly smaller than in VS Code. While this is not strictly an issue in and of itself, the decreased font size makes numbers in notifications illegible.
See picture: Left is VS Code where “1” is clearly readable, right is Cursor where “14” is almost entirely illegible.
Steps to Reproduce
Obvious.
Expected Behavior
For it to either retain VS Code’s size or be configurable
Operating System
Linux
Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)
Version: 1.3.9
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 54c27320fab08c9f5dd5873f07fca101f7a3e070
Date: 2025-08-01T20:15:21.999Z
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Linux x64 6.12.40-1-lts
Additional Information
I get it, some people use MacBooks or other cr*p like that and might want to save 4px of screen space with this smaller bar, but why punish people who use normal displays with this?
Does this stop you from using Cursor
No - Cursor works, but with this issue